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James M. Jeffords is a former U.S. Senator from Vermont, known for his independent stance after leaving the Republican Party in 2001. He served in the Senate from 2001 to 2007 and was previously a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1975 to 1989. Throughout his political career, Jeffords focused on environmental issues, education, and healthcare reform. He was instrumental in promoting legislation aimed at reducing pollution and addressing climate change, advocating for the establishment of uniform standards for industrial emissions.
passage of the Goals 2000 bill is something to be proud of. In fact, it may turn out to be one of the most important pieces of legislation that we pass in many years. If this bill turns out to be the catalyst that we need to take action to…
Lost productivity: $225 billion a year. These are all from studies which have been done by experts to determine the cost of our educational system in its present state. One is probably the most interesting in the sense of defining what we…
Half of American high school students never go to college. A mere one-quarter of our youngsters obtain post-secondary degrees. However, unlike most other industrialized nations, we do not have a comprehensive system to prepare this…
I think we ought to understand what we are doing here. That is an incredible change in existing law. It may be what is desired and, apparently, it is what is desired.
I rise in support of the amendment of the Senator from Oregon. I think it is an excellent one. He has been an outspoken proponent of regulatory flexibility and I am certainly glad to add my name as a cosponsor. My colleagues may remember…
I certainly want to inform the body that I think it is a tremendous step forward in trying to make sure that we do have in this Nation schools that are safe. I also am very pleased, and I think we are doing an important thing, that we are…
I want to briefly comment and first commend the Senator from Massachusetts for outlining the things that are good about our educational system. The problem is that the things that are good only affect a small percentage of our students…
I certainly commend the Senator for bringing this amendment before us. Certainly we all are deeply concerned about guns in schools. However, the wording of it disturbs and it might be something we can work at. In Vermont I know, for…
I hate to destroy the enthusiasm oozing from the comments. But as manager of the bill and a member of the committee, we worked very hard to work out a compromise on this very important language. We also will be receiving an amendment which…
I wish that were to be the case. But I think we will all understand when we fully understand the dimensions of the goals and the dimensions of the problems that this is a beginning of a prolonged effort in the sense it should have been…
I think we are making a great deal of progress and, hopefully, within the next few minutes we will be able to even make further progress. This is an extremely important piece of legislation. I commend the Members for their attention to it…
I rise in somewhat reluctant opposition to the amendment. I do so primarily because this has been a very, very difficult area. In fact, I believe it was this area, more than anything else, which was in much different form, which caused the…